Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

1.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

2.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

3.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

4.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

5.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

6.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

7.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Degas, Edgar

8.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]

Bible

9.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

All knowledge is ambiguous.

Habgood, J. S.

12.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

13.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

14.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

15.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

17.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

18.

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

19.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Lorenz, Konrad

22.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

23.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

24.

Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

25.

It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

26.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

27.

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

28.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

29.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Einstein, Albert

30.

He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

31.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

32.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

Stewart, Rod

34.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Lyotard, Jean Francois

35.

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

36.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

37.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

38.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.